"The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery…" — Marina Warner

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. - Marina Warner

"The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain."

— Marina Warner

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17 Quotes by Marina Warner

Marina Warner has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly…
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that…
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers…
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the…
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and…
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
I avoid looking in the mirror.
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also…
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a…

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that… — Hannah Arendt
Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you… — Marcus Aurelius
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access… — Michelle Bachelet
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting… — David Bailey
Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself… — Antonio Banderas
I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even… — Tyra Banks
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams

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